Racism in the nation's service : government workers and the color line in Woodrow Wilson's America / Eric S. Yellin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yellin, Eric Steven, 1978-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans in the civil service--History--20th century.

African Americans in the civil service.

African Americans--Segregation.

African Americans.

Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924.

Wilson, Woodrow.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (316 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Between the 1880s and 1910s, thousands of African Americans passed civil service exams and became employed in the executive offices of the federal government. By 1920, promotions to well-paying federal jobs had nearly vanished for black workers. This book argues that the Wilson administration's successful 1913 drive to segregate the federal government was a pivotal episode in the age of progressive politics. It investigates how the enactment of this policy, based on Progressives' demands for whiteness in government, imposed a color line on American opportunity and implicated Washington in the economic limitation of African Americans for decades to come.

Contents:

No south to us: African American federal employees in republican Washington

The spoils: politics and black mobility

The sensibilities of the people: black politics in crisis

A new racial regime, 1913-1917

Democratic fair play: the Wilson administration in republican Washington

Wilsonian praxis: racial discrimination in a progressive administration

Resistance and friction: challenging and justifying Wilsonian praxis

Republicans in the new regime, 1918-1929

Creating normalcy: Washington after Wilson.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-289) and index.

ISBN:

9781469607214

1469607212

9781469608020

1469608022

OCLC:

843191926